Redefining disability / / edited by Paul D.C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber.

• Superior document: Personal/public scholarship ; Volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Smartt Gullion,; Barber, Danielle (Sociologist),; Bones, Paul D. C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Personal/public scholarship ; Volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 pages)

The reality of disability-of what it means to be disabled-has primarily been written by non-disabled people. Disability and disabled individuals are often described with pity, presented as burdens, or are background figures in larger non-disabled narratives. Redefining Disability challenges the outsider-dominated approach to disability by centering the disabled experience. This edited volume, featuring all disabled authors and creators, combines traditional academic works with personal reflections, visual art, and poetry. These works address disability and race, sexuality and disability, disability cultures, accommodation, self-diagnosis, and how we manage the obstacles ableist institutions place in our way. The authors address a variety of disabilities, including sensory, chronic pain, mobility, developmental disorders, and mental illness. It is through these testimonies that we hope to redefine disability on our terms; to clearly state that disability is not a bad word, and that all disabled lives have value. Redefining Disability is interdisciplinary, with broad application for undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, or to read for pleasure. Each entry contains discussion questions and/or activities for educators to use in the classroom.

Table of Contents

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Paul D. C. Bones, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Danielle Barber -- 1 Existing in a Mortal Form and Other Disabling Experiences -- E. J. K. Brimner and R. McGuire -- 2 Disabled Humans and Our Non-Human Animal Companions -- Paul D. C. Bones -- Pet Profile: Charlie -- Aparna Nair -- 3 Disability Discourse Stuck in a Black/White Binary: Embodying a Black and Disabled Identity as a Mixed-Race Person -- Cassandra Lovelock -- 4 Plum Tomato: Solanum lycopersicum -- Ellen Samuels -- 5 Disability Aesthetics: A Crip Artistry Manifesto -- Aurora Berger -- 6 Life on the Line -- Aurora Berger -- 7 Finding My Way in a Society Where I Don't Fit -- Jill Richardson -- Pet Profile: Mac -- Valerie and Chase Novack -- 8 Misfit in the Academy: Succeeding as a Visually Impaired Scholar in Australia -- Sheelagh Daniels-Mayes -- Pet Profile: Mudkip -- Ari -- 9 Justice vs. Injustice: Poetic Dialogue about the Meaning of Disability Justice among People Labelled/with Intellectual Disability -- Anonymous, Anonymous, Anonymous, Nicholas Herd, Anonymous, Doreen Kalifer, with support from Erin Kuri and Ann Fudge Schormans -- 10 Inspiration Porn and Desperation Porn: Disrupting the Objectification of Disability in Media -- Kara B. Ayers and Katherine A. Reed -- Pet Profile: Scribbles -- Melanie Coughlin -- 11 Tap Tap Tap -- Marie Gagnon -- 12 Adaptation from the Margins: Toward a Crip Theatre -- Christopher Bryant -- Pet Profile: Pepper -- Brian -- 13 Diagnosis Limbo -- Danielle Barber -- Pet Profile: Luther & Layla -- Danielle Barber -- 14 Successful Sad -- Vanessa Ellison -- Pet Profile: Monkey -- Emily Dall'Ora Warfield -- 15 Ddeaf Adjacency: Liminal Conditions of Not Hearing -- Megan Marshall -- 16 S-I-L-I-C-O-N-E Inject-Ear | Silicone Injections: In American Sign Language (ASL) Gloss and English -- Raymond Luczak -- 17 Utensils and Fire -- Jessica Spears Williams -- 18 Seeing Brains: Shakespeare, Autism, and Self-Identification -- Nicholas R. Helms -- Pet Profile: Pike Trickleg -- Lauren (aka L.W. Salinas) -- 19 Hot Girl Bummer: Achieving Disabled Sexual Liberation in an Ableist World -- Katherine O'Connell -- Pet Profile: Abacus -- Kimberly C. Merenda -- 20 Selected Poems -- Jessi Aaron -- Pet Profile: Opal, Orbit, & Ruby -- Aubree Evans -- 21 Maybe Do Talk to Strangers on the Internet? An Interview with Corin de Parsons Frietas -- Corin Parsons de Frietas (with Paul D. C. Bones) -- Pet Profile: Finn & Bear -- Corin Parsons de Freitas -- 22 Finding Empowerment in the Middle: Navigating Hidden Disabilities in Academia -- Summer M. Jackson -- Pet Profile: Rocko (More Formally Known as Rocko Taco) -- Summer M. Jackson -- 23 Taking Center Stage in the Face of Shame and Scars -- Jasmine (Jaz) Gray -- Pet Profile: Aisling & Truthe -- Jennifer Stahl -- 24 Assistive Tech, Assertive Tech -- Cole Sorensen -- 25 Modern Day Changelings: On Being an Autistic Parent of an Autistic Child -- Alison Kelly -- 26 Stone, Water, Land, Spine -- Elizabeth Glass -- Pet Profile: Maximus Aurelius Gullion, Guardian of the Realm, Slayer of Demons, Friend to Unicorn and Dragon, Defender of Squeaky Toys & Spartacus the Mighty -- Jessica Smartt Gullion -- 27 Cancer Isn't Like a Movie, But If It Was It'd Be a Horror Flick -- Terri Juneau Eklund -- Pet Profile: Bacon & Pancake -- Terri Juneau Eklund -- 28 "It's Meant to Be a Hazing Process": Deciphering Ableism Surrounding Academic Accommodations -- Corey Reutlinger -- Pet Profile: Captain Jack Harkness & Pippa Millicent Tiny Panther -- Tara Elliot -- 29 Night of the Living Ableds: Disability, Representation, and Horror Film -- Paul D. C. Bones -- Pet Profile: Mildred Sausage, Allan Hamsteak, & Inara Bacon -- Paul D. C. Bones -- 30 A Bright Green: After Lou Ferrigno, A Deaf Bodybuilder Who Played the Incredible Hulk (1977-1982) -- Raymond Luczak -- 31 Manifesto -- The Committee for the Sick and Useless.